718
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Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up
https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/29/apple-is-rebuilding-maps-from-the-ground-up/
7 years ago
649
356
I'm Scott Aaronson, quantum computing/computational complexity researcher. AMA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17425377
610
77
The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning
http://explained.ai/matrix-calculus/index.html
430
27
Reverse Engineering for Beginners
https://www.begin.re/
415
257
Darpa invests $100M in a silicon compiler
https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1333422
371
74
A system to help you remember more of what you read
https://robertheaton.com/2018/06/25/how-to-read/
330
139
AntiPolygraph.org appears to have been “de-listed” from Google on key searches
https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2018/06/28/google-de-lists-antipolygraph-org-on-key-search-terms/
299
103
Against privacy defeatism: why browsers can still stop fingerprinting
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/06/29/against-privacy-defeatism-why-browsers-can-still-stop-fingerprinting/
287
86
Data Structures Reference
https://www.interviewcake.com/data-structures-reference
280
218
Massive Comcast Outage Hits the US
http://www.newsweek.com/comcast-xfinity-down-outage-not-working-internet-my-area-1002278
13
Exactis Data Breach May Have Leaked Personal Data of Almost Every American Adult
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-new-data-breach-may-have-exposed-personal-information-of-almost-every-american-adult-2018-06-27
244
152
A Japanese cyber-security expert who defended basic decency was stabbed to death
https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-cyber-security-expert-trolled-the-trolls-then-one-killed-him
231
125
Japan's 'Naked Hermit' Pried from Island Utopia After 29 Years
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/naked-hermit-who-lived-on-deserted-island-for-thirty-years-captured-brought-back-to-civilisation/news-story/cb26d68f95f682f86e04d339e11e1541
223
EFF Sues to Invalidate FOSTA, an Unconstitutional Internet Censorship Law
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/eff-sues-invalidate-fosta-unconstitutional-internet-censorship-law
217
50
Readme-Driven Development (2010)
http://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-development.html
204
165
Montreal Moving Day: what happens when a whole city moves house at once
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jun/29/montreal-moving-day-what-happens-when-a-whole-city-moves-house-at-once
180
172
Crypto Coin Tether Defies Logic on Kraken’s Market, Raising Red Flags
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tether-kraken-trades/
176
114
There's no limit to longevity, says study that revives human lifespan debate
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05582-3
167
41
An Easier Way to Build Alexa Skills Using Python
https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/3a8f27f3-d724-4e0b-bc72-0dcddd0b2eab/announcing-an-easier-way-to-build-alexa-skills-using-python
166
19
Extracting Super Mario Bros levels with Python
http://matthewearl.github.io/2018/06/28/smb-level-extractor/
162
59
Show HN: The Program – A fictional podcast inspired by Hacker News stories
http://programaudioseries.com/
98
Facial recognition rolled out by London police sparking human rights concerns
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/facial-recognition-london-police-accuracy-human-rights-crime-database-a8422056.html
157
126
Space is full of dirty, toxic grease, scientists reveal
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jun/27/space-is-full-of-dirty-toxic-grease-scientists-reveal
148
Crystal 0.25.1 released
https://crystal-lang.org/2018/06/28/crystal-0.25.1-released.html
24
Breaking LTE on Layer Two
https://alter-attack.net/
147
9
Bayesian Networks – An Introduction (2016)
https://www.bayesserver.com/docs/introduction/bayesian-networks
140
The Dipole Drive: A New Concept for Space Propulsion
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2018/06/29/the-dipole-drive-a-new-concept-for-space-propulsion/
137
14
TCP small queues and WiFi aggregation – a war story
https://lwn.net/Articles/757643/
134
64
How to Steal 50M Bees
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-26/how-to-steal-50-million-bees
Internet is losing its memory: Cerf
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/internet-is-losing-its-memory-cerf-495854
23
ICE Whistleblower interview with CBS interrupted by government agents
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-ice-spokesman-james-schwab-opens-up-about-resignation-trump-administration/
116
144
Eight low-tech ways to keep cool in a heatwave (2013)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23255554
115
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Marijuana addiction is real, and rising
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/06/24/marijuana-addiction-rising/
111
46
How a Chinese businessman became the largest supplier of pyrotechnics in the US
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/business/the-largest-supplier-of-american-fireworks-is-from-china/
210
The US Mint lost $69M making pennies last year
https://qz.com/1318203/making-pennies-costs-the-us-mint-millions/
102
12
Doing Windows, Part 2: From Interface Manager to Windows
https://www.filfre.net/2018/06/doing-windows-part-2-from-interface-manager-to-windows/
22
Growing a Golf Simulator Business to $50k/month
https://www.starterstory.com/stories/24-7-golf
100
Tesla opens the Model 3 reservation floodgates
https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/28/tesla-opens-model-3-reservations/
93
33
Thousands of Apps Leak Sensitive Data via Misconfigured Firebase Back Ends
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/thousands-of-apps-leak-sensitive-data-via-misconfigured-firebase-backends/
60
Clojure Error Messages Are Accidental
https://lispcast.com/clojure-error-messages-accidental/
91
70
The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation (2012)
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition30/tryanny.html
90
E-Cigarette Maker Juul Labs Is Raising $1.2B
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-29/e-cigarette-maker-juul-labs-is-raising-1-2-billion
84
37
The Life and Death of Teletext
http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/tv/teletext/58735/the-life-and-death-of-teletext-and-what-happened-next
83
8
One-Shot Imitation from Watching Videos
http://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2018/06/28/daml/
81
15
A massive cache of law enforcement personnel data has leaked
https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-massive-cache-of-law-enforcement-personnel-data-has-leaked/
80
10
Greek numerals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_numerals
79
17
Understanding Latent Style
https://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2018/06/28/latent-style/
Ask HN: Would you rather work for Google or a smaller high growth company?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17421586
76
Show HN: A raytracer to shade topographic maps in R, Part 2
http://www.tylermw.com/making-beautiful-maps/
75
40
Rewards of Up to $500K Offered for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux Zero-Days
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/rewards-of-up-to-500-000-offered-for-freebsd-openbsd-netbsd-linux-zero-days/
Huygens: Scalable, Fine-grained Clock Synchronization [pdf]
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi18/nsdi18-geng.pdf
Debugging Serverless Apps: from monitoring invocations to observing systems
https://read.iopipe.com/debugging-serverless-apps-from-monitoring-invocations-to-observing-a-system-of-functions-578c2ef8b3de
Rewards of Up to $500K Offered for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux Zero-Days